Action Bank Working GroupStatusTitleDescriptionAuthorFacilitationideaReducing maternal and infant mortalityWe will achieve this through collaborative work with partners including Healthy Start in Concordia and Cata... Continue ReadingHang VuFacilitationconceptReducing maternal and infant mortality through collaborative work with partners including Early Steps in Concordia and Catahoula Parish. We will also work with Concordia and Catahoula Parish Healthy Community Coalitions and other local providers including but not limited to the Office of Public Health, local OB-GYNs, FCHCs, Rapides Foundation, and othersThe aim is to improve hypertension rates among pregnant and postpartum women and birthing people in Concord... Continue ReadingKwanza WhiteData for ActionsideaLouisiana Health Ranking ProjectUse America’s Health Rankings as an elicitation device for engaging community and interdisciplinary e... Continue ReadingMargaux FisherFacilitationconceptReducing maternal and infant mortality through collaborative work with partners including Early Steps in Concordia and Catahoula Parish. We will also work with Concordia and Catahoula Parish Healthy Community Coalitions and other local providers including but not limited to the Office of Public Health, local OB-GYNs, FCHCs, Rapides Foundation, and othersThe aim is to improve hypertension rates among pregnant and postpartum women and birthing people in Concord... Continue ReadingHang VuData for ActionsconceptCentralize community health needs assessments.Creating a digital repository for all community health needs assessments in the state from varying sources.... Continue ReadingClark BanachInterventionsconceptYouth Holistic (Physical and Mental) Wellness & Advocacy ProgramThe overall goal of the program is to increase the school to job security pipeline. This is a comprehensive... Continue ReadingKwanza WhiteData for ActionsideaCentralize community health needs assessments.Creating a digital repository for all community health needs assessments in the state from varying sources.... Continue ReadingClark BanachInterventionsideaYouth Holistic (Physical and Mental) Wellness & Advocacy ProgramThe overall goal of the program is to increase the school to job security pipeline. This is a comprehensive... Continue ReadingKwanza WhiteideaCommunity Health Needs Assessment RepositoryCentralize CHNA’s in the state for easy access and improvement.Clark BanachInterventionsideaYouth Mental Health & AdvocacyWith youth mental health and advocacy, the focus is geared towards giving teens aged 13 to 18 from across t... Continue ReadingKwanza WhiteData for ActionsideaMaternal Mental HealthThe leading preventable cause of maternal mortality is the mental health conditions of birthing people. Man... Continue ReadingKwanza WhiteData for ActionsideaLivable WageAccording to America’s Health Rankings, Louisiana has a poverty rate of 19%, which is significantly higher ... Continue ReadingKwanza WhiteData for ActionsideaMaternal & Infant MortalityThe Louisiana Maternal Mortality and Infant Mortality rates have been on the rise. According to the 2023 Am... Continue ReadingKwanza WhiteInterventionsideaEstablish a training pipeline for providers in each of the public health units (64)Work with the Via College of Medicine, LSU – Ochsner Shreveport, LSU Health Sciences Center – N... Continue ReadingTonya HunterInterventionsideaImprove maternity care: Bring maternity care back to the public health units and establish protocols for regional OB-ED’sBring a baseline maternity care offering to each parish’s public health unit to allow for a standard baseli... Continue ReadingTonya HunterInterventionsideaMaintain and increase childhood educationEarly childhood education is critical to success in high school and higher education. We cannot increase Bl... Continue ReadingDavid HolcombeInterventionsideaIncreasing access to sub-specialists for Medicaid and uninsuredLink medical licensure to seeing a quota of Medicaid or uninsured patients. Provide malpractice relief to p... Continue ReadingDavid HolcombeData for ActionsconceptHigh Demand Education/Job TrainingHigh school graduation is a critical 1st step to avoiding a lifetime living in poverty. But the Pathway bey... Continue ReadingPEGGY HONOREData for ActionsconceptHigh Demand Education/Job TrainingHigh school graduation is a critical 1st step to avoiding a lifetime living in poverty. But the Pathway bey... Continue ReadingPEGGY HONOREInterventionsideaHigh Demand Education/Job TrainingHigh school graduation is a critical 1st step to avoiding a lifetime living in poverty. But the Pathway bey... Continue ReadingPEGGY HONOREData for ActionsideaReducing Domestic ViolenceDomestic Violence has a profound multi-generational impact across the lifespan. An individual’s commu... Continue ReadingPEGGY HONOREData for ActionsideaYouth Environmental Justice Training and AdvocacyIncorporating an environmental justice focus into LCHE’s youth leadership and advocacy programs, and ... Continue ReadingMargaux FisherInterventionsideaYouth wellness and advocacy program.We’ve created a curriculum that is designed to empower underserved youth to become advocates for over... Continue ReadingChiara M TheardInterventionsideaCollective Interaction of like-minded organizationsDevelop a system that collects lists of relevant organizations that have consistent interests that can work... Continue ReadingJohn DavisData for ActionsideaWater Sampling by the communityCitizen Water sample: Why can’t a citizen gather a water sample and have it tested immediately to ide... Continue ReadingVelva BolesData for ActionsideaCitizen Soil SamplesOne way to improve public health is to find a way to crowd source local data on environmental hazards. By f... Continue ReadingClark Banach
